Folding awning.



PATENTED SEPT. 26, 1905. G. W. LINDER. FOLDING AWNING. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 25, 1904.

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FOLDING AWNING.

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APPLICATION FILED NOV. 25, 1904.

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GLAS WV. LINDER, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

FOLDING AWNING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 26, 1905.

Application filed November 25, 1904. Serial No. 234,218.

To a. w/wm/ it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLAS W. LINDER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have invented new and useful Improvements in Folding Awnings, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a folding awning; and the object of my invention is to provide an awning that will fold up compactly against the building when not in use instead of raising up.

To this end my invention consists in certain novel parts and combinations, which will be fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

Figure 1 is a part of the invention in elevation, disclosing the means in part for folding and unfolding the awning. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the first floor of a building, disclosing a show-case on the inside with my awning and the means for manipulating the same in position. Fig. 3 is a top broken section of the awning, disclosing the manner of the attachment of the cable employed for folding and unfolding the awning. Fig. 4 is a vertical section of the front of a building disclosing the window in section and the cable used for folding and unfolding the awning, with the awning in part suspended to the cable. Fig. 5 indicates the position, in part, of the awning when folded when not in use. Fig. 6 and Fig. 7 are right-angle journal-seats adapted to support two beveled cog-wheels, as shown. Fig. 8 is an enlarged section of a portion of the horizontal shaft with flangepulley mounted thereon, as indicated in Fig. 1. Fig. 9 designates a vertical shaft broken, the position of which will be fully described later on. Fig. 10 illustrates a section of the second floor of a building, disclosing a modification in part, the same as indicated in Fig. 2. Fig. 1 1 is an outer end view of one of the cog-rims seen at Fig. 7. Fig. 12 illustrates a bracket in which a plurality of rollers are mounted, together with a T-iron in position, which will also be fully described. Fig. 13 is a vertical section taken on line A A of Fig. 12. Fig. 14 is a pulley-guideway which is suspendedfrom the ceiling of the first story of the building, as indicated on Fig. 2. Fig. 15 is a cross-sectional view taken on line B B in Fig. 14, disclosing two rollers in position. Fig. 16 is a broken sectional view of the front end of building, disclosing my invention, partly in position, in a modified form, with the awning adapted to fold on the upper side of the supporting-framework instead of being suspended on the under side, as that indicated in Fig. 2. Fig. 17 discloses an end view, enlarged, of Fig. 16, which is adapted to simultaneously fold with the awning, as seen on the upper side of the framework at Fig. 16. Fig. 18 discloses the awning in part folded. Fig. 19 illustrates an end view folded in section.

With the above brief description of my invention I will now proceed to more fully de scribe it by referring to corresponding numerals on the drawings and the specification, in which 1 designates the front end of a building in section. Suspended to the ceiling 2 is a trackway 3, adapted to support two rollers 4, as seen in cross-section at Fig. 15'. In practice it is obvious that I can use as many of these trackways as is necessary for supporting an awnin on the front of a wide building. Nothing ess than two, however, will answer.

Secured to a shaft upon which rollers 41 are mounted and between the rollers is the inner end of an I-beam 5. Said I-beam or I-beams may be curved upward at their inner ends, as indicated in Fig. 2, or may engage the pulley-ways 3, as indicated at Fig. 10.

Secured to the front of the building is a bracket 6. Supported by said bracket are rollers 7 and 8. Said rollers 7 and 8 are supported in the bracket by means of bolts 9, as indicated in the rollers by dotted lines. Horizontally resting on roller 8 and vertically between roller 7 is an awning-suspending bar 5, already referred to, constructed of Tiron. Said bar is slidingly secured to the roller-ways 3 at its inner end and supported on the bracket 6 between the rollers 7 and 8,

as seen at Fig. 12, already referred to. Said awning-supporting bar 5 extends outward, as shown in Fig. 2. Secured to the under side of said bar at 10 is a rope or cable 11. Said cable passes outward and makes a turn or so around a concave first pulley or roller 12, as indicated at Fig. 1. From said pulley 12 it passes down and makes one or more turns around pulley 13, which is secured to a hori- Zontal shaft 14. From said pulley 13 it passes back and under pulley 12 thence out+ ward to the end of the awning-supporting bar 5, where it is made secure at 16. Suspended to said cable 11 by means of eyebolts 16 are the folding awnings 17 At one end of said horizontal shaft 14 is a hollow bracket 18. Mounted and supported in said bracket is a pair of beveled wheels 19, as indicated at Fig. 7. The outer ends of the shafts 20 and 21 are provided with square sockets 22. One of the outer ends of the shaft 14 is squared and is adapted to loosely but snugly engage the socket 22 in the end of shaft 21.

Secured to the front of the building a suitable distance above the sidewalk is a beveled cog-wheel supporting-bracket 23, the same as bracket 18, already described.

Loosely engaging the sockets 22 in a vertical shaft supported in brackets 18 and brackets 23 are the ends of a vertical shaft 24. The said ends, a small portion thereof, are s uared, as indicated at 25 in Fig. 9. The object of these squared portions is to in a degree admit said shaft to have a swivel movement when in operation, so that it will not cramp or bind. Also supported in bracket 23 is a horizontal shaft, one of the same as designated at 20 and 21. (Seen at Fig. 7.) Engaging the socket in said horizontal shaft mounted in bracket 23 is a crank 26, the in ner end of which is squared to correspondingly engage one of the sockets, (indicated at 22, Fig. 11.) It can now be seen that by turning crank 26 in one direction it will cause the awning-supporting beam to travel to the right until its outer end is moved inward to the wall 1 of the building or adjacent thereto, and the inner end of said. awningsupporting shaft will travel through the pulley-ways 3. hen in this position, the awning is folded, as indicated at Fig. 5.

The awning is made or constructed in longitudinal sections 17, as already described. Said sections are hinged together by suitable hinges 27. Secured to the wall 1 of the building is a longitudinal projecting shed or cornice 28, so that when the awning is folded and not in use it folds up under said projecting shed 28.

In my modifi cation seen at Fig. 16 the awning 1.7 folds above the supporting-beams 5 instead of below, as indicated in Fig. 2 of my preferred form. I have further provided an upwardly-projecting incasement 29, supported on the outer ends of beams 5, the object of which is to receive the folds of the awning when the beams are being crowded in ward for folding the awning.

I have further provided in my modification folding ends 30, constructed in the same manner as the roofing 17 and operated simultaneously with the roofing when folding and unfolding. These end sections are provided with a cord or cable 31, as indicated in Fig. 17. Said cable is made secure at 32 or stationary at the outer point of said end sections and extends inward, passing zigzag through said sections until it reaches the pulley 13 on the longitudinal shaft 14;, from thence over pulley 12, then rearward to the connection at 10 of the supporting-beams 5.

In order to make the inner edge of my awning secure to a building, I have provided a longitudinal beam 33, and a further object of said beam is to support the concave first pulley 12. Said pulleys 12 are placed on said horizontal beam correspondingly over the pulleys 13, which mounted on the horizontal shaft 1 1. In order to make the folds of the cord or cable 17 pass from pulleys 13 to pulleys 12, I have cut a mortise or openin 34 through said beam for that purpose. wish it further understood that I can make my folding awnings from any suitable material and fireproof as far as possible, which I can do by using asbestos but sheets of aluminium are preferable. I

At the caves of the awning and secured to the awning-supporting beams 5 is a longitudinal beam 35, to which the cave-section of the cornice is made secure.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. In. a folding awning of the character described, roJler-carrying brackets roller-ways; awning-supporting beams mounted on the brackets and the roller-carrying ways, and adapted to move inward and outward of the building through the brackets and the ways; a right-angle cog-rim supporting-bracket secured to the building; cog-rim shafts mounted in the bracket; a longitudinal shaft secured to the building; pulleys mounted. thereon, one end of said shaft adapted to engage a shaft carried by the right angle bracket pulleys mounted on a horizontal beam secured to the building; a cable engaging the pulleys on the shaft and on the beam, and the outer end thereof secured to the outer end of the awning-supporting beam, and the inner end secured to said beam on the inside of a building; substantially as described.

2. Ina folding awning of the character de scribed, the roller-carrying brackets secured to the front of a building; roller-ways secured to the ceiling; awning-supporting beams adapted to slidingly engage the roller-carrying brackets and the ways; right-angle brackets secured to the outer walls of the building, one above and the other below a horizontal shaft carrying pulleys, one end thereof adapted to engage in the right-angle bracket above; a vertical shaft, the upper end thereof adapted to engage said bracket at right angles with the horizontal shaft, the lower end adapted to engage in the lower bracket; a crank-shaft engaging in said lower bracket; a cord or cable engaging said horizontal shaft and pulleys mounted on a horizontal beam,

the outer ends of said cable secured to the outer ends of the awning-supporting beams, its inner end secured to the inner portion of the awning-supporting beams on the inside in the presence of two Witnesses.

I and adapted to fold simultaneously With the l of a building; the folding shed-awning car- CLAS W. LIN DER.

shed portion; substantially as described. 10 In testimony whereof I aifix my signature ried by the cable and the awning-supporting Witnesses:

MINNIE L. RYNEX, R. E. HAMILTON beams and adapted to fold, folding end sections supported by said supporting-beams, 

